The Children of Spring Street by Meredith A. B. Ellis

Author:Meredith A. B. Ellis
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9783319926872
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

These “Buds of Paradise” to the Rev. Ludlow, and likely the Rev. Cox before him, represented the future of the church, the city, and the country. Education in a Sunday school program was seen as a crucial way to prepare these new citizens to live in a manner which the Reverends thought appropriate. Given these attitudes, then, we should expect that children of this age group would have been regarded as an investment, and that we might see that embodied in their skeletal remains. Having survived the dangerous period of infancy, children could now take on a different role in the family , a more active role in the home, in the church, and in schooling. However, toddlers are also biological beings, constrained by the developing biology of their bodies. As Lewis notes, “From two years, breast milk cannot supply the immunological resistance needed and passive immunity is no longer effective, meaning children need to rely on their own immunological defenses....This may explain why mortality rates between the ages of 1 and 5 years, while lower than for the infant, are five times higher than in an adult” (2018, p. 6). Thus we should expect variable stresses on the bodies of these children. And, the importance placed on these educational reforms means that many children were likely attending schooling, and therefore encountering new people, new diseases, and new risks, risks for which their biologies were still developing defenses.

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